May 21, 2010
Community Connection #4
F.U.E.L. Art Gallery
Luke Worley
- Tattoo artist
- Does black and white, colour, and realism
- Did first tattoo at age 21, has been illustrating tattoos ever since
- Illustrates birds, characters, and very pop-art symbols.
Luke Worley is a tattoo artist from the Phildelphia area. His gallery at F.U.E.L. was something i did not expect to see, because tattoo artists are not mainstream. But his tattoos are very unique in the sense that they are pop-art characters and are very comic book-esque, and are there on the body forever. tattoos are fascinating to me, the detail that is required on the skin, the fact that they are there forever, is just fascinating to me. i really enjoyed his gallery.
April 23, 2010
Community Connection #3
James Oliver Gallery
James Oliver
- abstract paintings
- colored lines of red yellow and green
- very 80s and abstract with the shapes used and multiplied
- beach house
- starving artist
- youthful colours
- vibrancy in colours
- geometrical shapes manipulated to look different
this gallery was online. i found it and discovered James Oliver and enjoyed his work. i found that his art was using geometrical shapes to influence and provoke a certain vibrant feel. the colours used were colours that remind one of a summer day, or a beach house. the art work was influenced by andy warhol, which is an obvious one to recognize for he uses the same layout and colours as he did for his marylin monroe statement. is work also reminds me of jackson pollock. this is all what i like about his work. what i do not like is how out of time it is, it is not very modern except it probably sells for a lot of money. he utilizes the approach of cubism to colour in the lines. his work is great!
April 13, 2010
Community Connection #2 (Marking Period 3)
Gallery : Rodin Museum
Artist: Rodin
- Sculptures of eloquence: faces and statues and hands
- Old fashioned appearances of women
- Situational figures, they are in situations rather than silhouettes
- Statues of historical figures
This exhibit is interesting because it was very historical, yet was not boring and held many statues that moved and intrigued my mind. I thought of old victorian dresses and times, and the situational figures made me feel intrigued to know what inspired his choice to make a statue of a “damned woman”. it is a good spring time retreat. during the spring and summer, it is a good spot to hit if you are coming from the art museum. i did not like how there weren’t any paintings. paintings always speak to me, and sculptures do not as much.
March 16, 2010
Community COnnection #1
Gallery: Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia
Artist: Julianna Foster
- Series of narrative photographs. B&W
- influenced in part by modern Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky.
- Andrey Tarkovsky does very risque, eye-catching art and cinema.
- “Foster explores how the individual image can transcend its own limits, and by association, provide the opportunity for a pictorial narrative to unfold.” (Vox)
- Reminds me of a movie screenshot.
Her photos are very dark and oblique. She uses a narrative to tell the story of a family. “Chapter 7″ is the title of the narrative “Late n the afternoon. A living room. Back to where it began.” i suppose she is making a narrative of a family. “Foster explores how the individual image can transcend its own limits, and by association, provide the opportunity for a pictorial narrative to unfold.” the pictures are dark and show a story of a young girl swimming through darkness and light.
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/index.php?artists=on&id=16
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March 2, 2010
Community Connection #5
Artist: Cassandra Young
Exhibit: Square Peg Artery Salvage- Odyssey Through South Asia
- took a trip to south asia with her camera
- captured cambodia, vietnam’s halong bay, ancient lands of thailand, indonesia, and malaysia
- part of the proceeds will go to MAG which helps to remove planted bombs and land mines.
Her photographs were sharp and full of contrast. She captured waters of south asia, people, the culture, and the landscape of thailand, malaysia, and vietnam. She wants to donate the money to remove landmines that have destroyed crops and farmland which is crucia for economic prosperity.
January 28, 1010
Community Connection #4
Exhibit: Ragas and Rajas: Musical Imagery of Courtly India
- Paintings with Bright colors, illustrations of Indian women and Indian animals
- Paintings with Patterns blue and white
- Treasure chests
- A painting of a woman performing a religious ritual
- Tribal women in the forest
- A woman with an Ascetic
“The ragamala (garland of musical modes) is one of the most popular subjects of Indian painting. Ragas are selections of musical notes and patterns that invoke particular emotions, times of day, and seasons of the year. Ragamala verses and illustrations are the poetic and visual personifications of ragas.” (Phildelphia Museum of Art, Collections object). The paintings featured in this exhibit in the Philadelphia Museum of Art are paintings of Indian women in their native India, being the music and sight of delight. They are portrayed dancing, being with Ascetics, and performing religious rituals. The treasure chests are precious in time and are antiques!
December 16, 2009
Community Connection #3
Artist: Frederick Sommer
- Photographs are dark and haunting
- Depict old men withered, young children confused
- Bricolage effect is apparent in photos, but is just due to his way of printing
- “Arizona Landscape” is “a horizonless image that only gradually resolves its components into a desolate desert scene”.
Frederick Sommer took photographs of things dark and beautiful (i.e. a dead fish, a woman’s face dressed in beads). They are remarkable for the time in which he produced them, for they are avant-garde in style and production. My favorite is his piece “Dürer Variation (vertical)” which is of saints drawn to look compact in a vertical manner.
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November 5, 2009
Community Connection #2
Exhibition: Arshile Gorky in Context
- A collection of paintings which inspired this artist.
- Paintings such as “Dog Barking at the Moon” By Joan Miro.
- Focused on composition and abstracting the seen (scene) Arshile Gorky is an abstract expressionist.His paintings are important and well known, for their content and what they have brought to people from their existence. The exhibition was fruitful in colors, improvisational feelings, and different emotions that were tall and intriguing.
I enjoyed this exhibit for many reasons, one being the presence of many different paintings of artists whom i did not know but now admire. I see the correlation between the selected piecees and the work of Arshile Gorky.
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October 13, 2009
COMMUNITY CONNECTION #1
Artist: Janet Sullivan Turner
October 6, 2009, First Friday in Old City Philadelphia
Hadley Stacks
- Artist assembled abstract sculptures using found objects
- Assembled a unicycle from a bicycle
- Built a sphere of metal objects that expanded to be 33″x39″
- Lots of found objects were trash or trash related
- Heavy assemblage of objects upon canvas
- Heavy texture
- Heavy contextualization and conceptualization
- Lots of heaviness
Artist Janet Sullivan Turner’s collection of abstractions reminded me of friend and past Honor’s Art student Rachel Amey. Rachel Amey’s collection of the 2008 year featured found objects upon a large piece of wood. She incorporated the aspect of trash vs. the environment- the cause and effects of littering on our planet, and although Janet;s was not about the same thing, they both resembled each other’s pieces. Janet’s pieces were not completely original nor were they completely unique, but I remembered hers the most because of this factor. They caught the eye deeply and quick enough that they were memorable. I enjoyed seeing all the textures applied. and all of the items found to represent her “Memories”. Overall it was an exceptional art exhibit!
